CVE-2009-1758

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The hypervisor_callback function in Xen, possibly before 3.4.0, as applied to the Linux kernel 2.6.30-rc4, 2.6.18, and probably other versions allows guest user applications to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) of the guest OS by triggering a segmentation fault in "certain address ranges."

Affected products

xen: through 3.3.1; 2.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 (+7)

References

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-05/msg00561.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35093
http://secunia.com/advisories/35298
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1809
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/14/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34957
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10313
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-05/msg00561.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35093
http://secunia.com/advisories/35298
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1809
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/14/2

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